Easy of Use

GNOME 3.7.5 -so far- comes with 21 panels instead of 18 in GNOME 3.6 and many many new options. What is worth to be mentioned is the good work of GNOME Design Team to provide a really easy to use Settings and adjust your system. All features are discoverable at first sight but I have some complains because some options aren’t clear understandable what they do, and you might need to open the help -which by the way has hugely improved.

I won’t say that this is a completed Settings Center and for sure many things are missing, like the fonts configuration or the Firewall Setup. G-C-C 3.8 is now also closing a ridiculous bug; You can now switch layouts easily without the need of Gnome Tweak Tool.

Yeap. you now can cycle between layouts with <Super+Space> and also with an impressive way! If you have more than 3 layouts, Shell Info will help a lot as you can pick your layout also with the mouse! Nice one!

Notifications

I noticed a this small bug in design here. In Notifications Panel I currently have 7 Apps. With the 3.8 release they will become more than a dozen. What If I want to disable/enable the Sound or the Banner Details for all of them? Do I have to check them one by one? There isn’t a general Set.

If you find out such small details that bothers you, you can file a bug in Gnome Bugzilla.

Network Panel

Most of the improvements in 3.7.5 touched the Network Panel. Unfortunately I don’t have a wireless to test it.

The “Options” text button has now been replaced by the Gear Button. The Gear Button has also land in many other GNOME 3 Apps, like Disks. I personally like that practice as long as it remains clear what Options you will find there, and isn’t a “Joker (cards)” button.

The new Design for adding the networks details is pretty and clean. Also there is a new option here to reset or forget network settings like passwords.

The Egg Lists (?) came also in Network. These are just 4 huge buttons. It is a bit strange to see such thing in GNOME, but I +1 it. The cursor on them currently remains arrow.

GNOME Control Center Changelogs

GNOME 3.8 will be a huge improvement over 3.6, and I also listen very good things are happening in Ubuntu Unity. Both Systems are releasing pretty much the same dates and you can get them with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Gnome Remix -or any other distro you prefer anyway! The point is that Open Source Desktops give really quality choices to people!

Color
+ Allow the user to remove automatically added profiles
+ Show a summary page when running on a LiveCD
+ Show sRGB and AdobeRGB profiles when selecting a profile for a display
+ Use a EggListBox for the main device display to match the new mockups
+ Use colord-session to calibrate the display

Shell
+ Remove the previous panel when switching to a new one
+ Don’t remove old panel if new one is broken
+ Add F1 shortcut to show the help
+ Rename to Settings
+ Ensure the home button is the correct height
+ Fix alignment of home button in RTL languages
+ Make all the plugins static

Network
+ Make sure flight mode is always visible
+ Make sure Airplane mode switch everything off
+ Ensure IMEI is displayed and reload Operator Name when it changes
+ Also load IMEI and Operator Name for LTE-only modems

Bluetooth
+ Avoid possible loops when Connection fails

Date and Time
+ Do not offer the 12 hr clock in locales without AM/PM

Keyboard
+ Point to a more specific help page
+ Add support for msgctxt in keybindings
+ Improve shortcuts tab keynav

Printers
+ Show in Unity
+ Fix problems when adding new printers

Background
+ Hide in Unity

Region
+ Show in Unity
+ Fix possible crasher on startup when the X11Variant are empty
+ Offer logout options after changing language
+ Add Japanese to the popular languages
+ Show popular languages in their own language
+ Fix other user’s languages never getting added
+ Make ‘Add’ dialogs consistent
+ Reinstate the separator in the languages list
+ Fix button alignment problem
+ the language chooser resizing during load

Still waiting for the evolution overhaul that was discussed over a year ago. Contacts, Mail, Chat and Social Media as well as Calendar and Documents make it really interesting to get rid of that dinosaur-all-in-one-outlook interface.

Ron

It’s ok to install it on Ubuntu Gnome Remix 12.10? If yes, how to?

alex285

You need 13.04, and that means a daily build. I don’t know if UGR has daily builds, if not you need to get Ubuntu daily and add some PPAs

Ron

Thanks. (:

JJ

You can use ricots testing repo to install it in 12.10. Though that repo is quite unstable so you could install it once and disable the repo (unless u r okay with breakages)

alex285

For Control Center 3.8, I think you need to use 13.04 and Ricotz Staging.

http://jeremy.bicha.net/ Jeremy Bicha

I recommend the GNOME3 Staging PPA on top of 13.04 if you want to try GNOME 3.7.5 on Ubuntu. Be aware that there are known regressions (one is that I need to use sudo pm-suspend to suspend) with the packages there which is why it’s not in 13.04 directly or the GNOME3 PPA. In other words, some things will be broken so don’t use it unless you know how to fix problems or will be willing to reinstall if things break too badly.